Stropping holder for safety-razor blades



Dec. 18 1923.

P. E. SHEE STROPPING HOLDER FOR SAFETY RAZOR BLADES Filed Oct. 5, 1921 Patented Dec. 18, 1923.

STATES PARKE E. SHEE, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF To EDWARD I. NOBLE, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

STROPPING HOLDER FOR SAFETY-RAZOR BLADES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PARKE E. SHEE, a

3 citizen of the Unit-ed States, residing at vice adapted to securely hold a safety razor.

blade while it is being stropped.

The particular object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive holder adapted to'securely grasp and hold a safety razor blade of any type While it is being stropped.

Another special object of the invention is to provide such an implement with means whereby the blade to be sharpened may be readily inserted or removed, and in'which there will be no danger of injuring one edge of a double-edged blade while the other is being sharpened.

lVith this and other objects in view,.the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts that will be hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings:-

Fig. 1 is a View showing the holder in condition for use, a blade of the Gillette 4i type beingshown therein.

Fig. 2,is a view of the holder in open position, the blade being shown in dotted lines.

Fig. 3 is a View showing the holder grasping a blade of different type and not completely closed.

Fig. 1 is an end view.

Fig. 5 is a. section on the line 5-5 of Figure 1.

Fig. 6 is a section on the line 6-6 of Fig. 3, the clamp being completely closed,

Fig. 7 is a view illustrating a slightly different manner of arranging a double edged blade in the holder.

The improved holder comprises two elongated strips, 1, 2, preferably of metal, which are pivotally connected at one end, as at 3, and which constitute jaws between which a safety razor blade may be securely clamped.

As Will be seen, the strips 1, 2, are somewhat resilient so that they tend to separate slightly at their free ends, and when they are clamped upon an interposed blade the clamping members are held in slight spring tension. V

llach of the members 1, 2, is provided with an elongatednotch 4;, 5, which, when the members are turned into aligning position, coincide.

The member 1 is provided, at a point between the notch 3 therein, and its free end, with a short stud 6 that projects toward the-opposing clamping member 2, and the latter, as shown, has formed therein an aperture 7 to receive the free end of said stud.

A guard or clamping member 8 is pivotally connected with one of the body strips and adapted to be turned so that the spaced jaws thereof will closely embrace the members 1, 2, and-hold them in clamping engagement with a razor blade inserted between them.

Incase the blade to be sharpened is of the Grillette type, one of the end apertures therein is slipped over the stud 6, after which the two members 1, 2, are brought into aligned. position, and the guard 8 turned into the position shown in Figure 1.

Blades of the type referred to having opposed sharpened edges, it is important that means be provided whereby turning movement of the guard toward the body of the holder will be limited so that there will be no danger of the rear cutting edge of the blade being injured by reason of contact of the guard therewith.

According to the present invention the guard is provided at its free end with a stop. This is shown as being integral with, or a continuation oi, the back of the guard which is bent laterally so that the free end thereof will come into contact with the edges of the body strips 1, 2. before the back of the guard contacts with the rear cutting edge of the blade.

It will be seen that the guard extends throughout the length of the blade and completely covers the edge of adouble-edged blade which is not positioned for sharpening, and that the stop 9 positively prevents such rear edge from being injured by movement of the guard into operative position.

In case the blade to be sharpened has but a single cutting edge, it is positioned betweenthe members 1, 2, at one side of ill) the stud 6. Some makes of blades are provided with a reinforcing rib or thickened portion along the edge opposite the cutting edge, and when the improved holder is employed with blades of this type the reinforcedor thickened portion will fit within the notches 4:, 5, as will be readily understood.

The guard 8 contacts with the clamping members 1, 2, through substantially the entire length of the blade so that the latter is held securely in position, and is not likely to be disarranged during the manipulation necessary'to sharpen the projecting edge. The cross sectional form of'the guard is such that it facilitates turning of the implement as the blade is stropped on alternate sides.

To facilitate separation of the members 1, 2, of the holder when the'guard 8 has been turned to open position, the end of the member 2 is, preferably; reduced slightly in thickness, or ground out, as indicated at 2 in Fig. l.

While, as hereinbefore described, and as illustrated in Fi 1 and 2, a double edged blade of the illette type may be ositioned within the holder that one o the apertures therein receives the stud 6, it is not necessary that such a blade be arranged in this particular relationto the holder.

As shown in Fig. 7, a double edged'blade may be positioned entirely'at one side of the comprising two strips pivotally connected adjacent one end and adapted to receive and clamp a razor blade between them, one of the stripshaving a stud projecting therefrom toward the other strip, and the other strip being formed to receive said stud, and a tubular guard and clamp pivotally connected to one of the strips and adapted to be turned to embrace both strips and hold them in close engagement with a razor blade arranged between them, said guard extending throughout the length of the blade and across the rear edge thereof, the back of said guard, at the free end thereof, being bent forward to abut the edges of-the clamping strips.

. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

PARKE E. SHEE. 

